who knows??

The past weeks reading titled "Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show" was a really great essay. It was written by Marty Kaplan and basically explored the idea that language has been distorted as a tool to entertain, captivate, distract, and in some cases deceive people. He points out that many news networks and shows simply through using selective language can make a kidnapping front page news, and a genocide in Africa an afterthought of a story.

I had always thought that the English language was twisted as a result of society's over stimulation and constant thirst for more entertainment. but since reading Orwell's essay, and some of the essays in the book i am now more aware of it and am simply amazed at how much everything we see, hear, and read on a daily basis is all twisted and distorted in a way that is meant to draw us in, make us feel a certain way, or have a certain response. Its a huge tangled web of twists and turns that has gotten so out of control, no body really knows what the truth is anymore. One station claims that the other is wrong, while another network claims they are right. Politicians do the same. In all honesty, who really knows what is actually true, no body gives out facts anymore....just opinions. Every one "thinks" they know....who actually knows?